All meters or measuring devices not provided
by the Water Authority but required to be used under the provisions
of this chapter shall be furnished and installed by the property owner
and shall be under the control of the Borough, and may be tested,
inspected or repaired by Borough employees whenever Council deems
necessary. The owner of the property upon which such measuring device
is installed shall be responsible for its maintenance and safekeeping,
and all repairs thereto shall be made at the property owner's expense,
whether such repairs are made necessary by ordinary wear and tear
or other causes. Bills for such repairs, if made by the Borough, shall
be due and payable at the same time and collected in the same manner
as are the bills for sewer services; such bills from and after their
due date shall constitute a lien upon the property upon which such
measuring device is installed.
Borough shall be responsible for the reading
of all meters or measuring devices, and they shall be made available
to Borough employees for meter reading at any reasonable time.
The above connection fees set forth in this
chapter shall be payable upon application for permit to make such
connection. Sewer rentals or charges shall be billed and paid quarterly.
The funds received by the Borough from the collection
of the connection charges or from sewer rentals and all penalties
thereon, as herein provided for, and any fines collected by the Borough
in connection with the sewer system shall be segregated and kept separate
and apart from all other funds of the Borough and shall be used only
for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the Borough in the operation,
maintenance, repair, alteration, inspection, depreciation or other
expenses in relation to such sewer system and for such payments as
Borough may be required to make under any lease or agreement it may
enter into for and of, or in connection with, said sewer system, with
the Authority, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of May
2, 1945, P.L. 382, as amended.
Whenever sewer service to any property begins
after the first day or terminates before the last day of any calendar
quarter, the sewer rentals for such period shall be a pro rata amount
for that portion of the period during which said property is served;
provided, however, that in making any such apportionment a fraction
of a calendar month, amounting to 1/2 or more of a calendar month,
shall be counted a full month, and a fraction of a calendar month
amounting to less than 1/2 of a calendar month shall be disregarded.
The Borough reserves the right to, and may from
time to time, adopt, revise, amend and readopt such rules and regulations,
by resolution, as it deems necessary and proper for the use and operation
of the sewer system, and all such rules and regulations shall be and
become a part of and enforceable under this chapter.